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Monitor or View progress on runing flow initiated from cloud?

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Still fresh on using PAD and not abel to locate an answer with searches, so hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

 

All week I have been creating some magic with PAD and learning a ton as I go along.
Doing a Manual run I can watch the steps as they go, and at the end I can go and view the values of my variables to confirm that all is working as expected or I can quickly see what I need to modify.

Seems that when I trigger the Desktop Flow from a Cloud Flow,
The Flow runs, I can see it open a new browser window, go to the page I want, etc.

But PAD indicates the status as Not Runing and even if I have the edit window open looking at the flow I cant see any action..
Is there just no way to see this?

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    The PAD console will only show status as "Running" when you run your flow from the console by pressing the "Run" button. It does not reflect the status when running the flow from the cloud portal.

    You can see the run status in the cloud portal though if you navigate to Monitor > Desktop flow runs:

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    And select the run you want to see. You will be able to see all of the actions there and see all values of your variables.

    But it's not a very convenient way of checking the values, because it includes logs for every single action, so may be a bit too much. If you want to see the values of the variables after the end of your flow run to verify it was successful, I would suggest adding those variables as Output variables in PAD here:

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    This will make the flow return those values to your cloud flow, where you can see them in the flow run details. You can also use them as dynamic content in your cloud flow and push them to a SharePoint list, a database or whatever other means you would like to use for logging.

    Alternatively, you can simply add a Write text to file action at the end of your flow and write the values to a text file, or use a Send email action and send them to yourself via email. This way you'll have them after your flow runs and will be able to verify the results.

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  • chico Profile Picture
    638 on at

    @Agnius 

    Rock ON!!!

     

    thank you so much, I can now go and swim in all that data!

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